Acknowledgements

(SMWF is hosted by the African Women's Development Fund-USA (AWDF-USA), a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.)

Major donors as of December 31, 2008

African Women's Development Fund
The Daphne Foundation
Full Circle Living, Inc.
Heyman Family Fund
Hunt Alternatives Fund
Global Fund for Women
Dr. Jane Martin
The NoVo Foundation
The Sara Blakely Foundation
The Sister Fund
The Speyer Family Foundation Inc.
Strategic Urban Development Alliance, LLC
Women's Division
United Methodist Board of Global Ministries
Women's Foreign Policy Group
as well as many other individual donors

"We were extremely pleased as a small non-profit ourselves to be able to make our first-ever contribution to women such as the Liberian market women to begin rebuilding their lives after the terrible catastrophes that they and their families had encountered."

Patricia Ellis, Women's Foreign Policy Group

"It is a privilege to be a friend of the Liberian Market Women. We acknowledge the important role that Liberian women play in the reconciliation and reconstruction of Liberia and are hopeful that the new markets will help to facilitate this success."

Jerry Speyer, The Speyer Family Foundation

We would like to express our deep appreciation to our website programmer Bernard Gingras (www.bernardgingras.com) and our website designer Henrik Langsdorf aka Otto Steininger (www.ottosteininger.com) for their wonderful work in creating and launching the SMWF website. A special thank you is also due to Ellen Smiler (www.gillisandsmiler.com) who conceived of and designed the logo for SMWF.

We would also like to thank Phillip Martin for allowing us to use several of his photographs of Liberian markets and market women.